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July 24, 2009

Five Years Ago

Today's game had it all -- a brawl featuring A-Rod and Varitek, 4 Red Sox errors (including 3 on three consecutive plays), New York taking a quick 3-0 lead, Boston coming back 4-3 (with 4 hits on four consecutive pitches in the 4th), Tito getting ejected, blowing the lead and trailing 9-4, cutting the gap to 9-8, falling back 10-8, and then winning the game 11-10 with a 2-run Mueller home run off Rivera in the 9th. ... And two perfect innings from Ramiro Mendoza.

Every batter Rivera faced -- all five -- hit the ball hard. ...

This game could really turn this team around. They played hard Friday, but fell short. Today, they stormed right back after both the fight and the Yankees' 6-run 6th and puts several runs on the board. ... I'm ready for a 20-4 run. I believe! How about you?

That team had some personality, an edge, a chip on its shoulder...I am waiting to see what the personality of this team will be.It seems as though over the last couple of years they have become quite "vanilla' in personality and swagger....

Here is a file of newspaper articles from Boston and New York the next day, along with photos and a video. I hope the article file open properly.

At some point, I posted and linked to Youtube video of a semi-scuffle between Dumbo and an opposing batter. Words exchanged at the plate and there was some shoving and whatnot. Dumbo kept mask on the entire time. Stupid me, I did not save the video and it was later unavailable.

Yes, I did not turn on comment until the beginning of the 2005 season. I cannot remember why I did not have them on until then. Seems weird now.